The gravity model is widely used to estimate the effect of a reduction in trade costs on international trade flows. However, researchers face many analytical decisions in their choice for an empirical strategy. This paper uses a specification curve analysis method to study the effect of these...

Noting the rising importance of international trade in global warming, this study proposes a new decomposition of carbon productivity by dividing it into the part of true carbon productivity (consumption-based labor productivity and population-sustaining power of CO2) and the part with zero-sum...

Different ways of participating in global value chain (GVC) result in the disparity of international-trade-induced resource and environmental costs, hence inequality between trading economies. This study delves into the trigger and mechanism towards trade-induced energy inequality. First, we...

Using data on 2380 firms from nine emerging countries, this paper shows that there is a positive and significant relationship between financial health and the intensive margin of trade. The magnitude of this positive relationship is shown to depend on several firm characteristics, where the...